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Apparently unpublished manuscript of `Gleanings of Antiquity in Forfarshire’ by James Thomson of Dundee.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.17
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains:(i) a general topographical description of the area (folio 4);(ii) descriptions of ancient monuments and fortifications found there, including a concise account of the Druids (folio 15);(iii) accounts of excursions made in Perthshire in 1822 (folio 59);(iv) copies of ballads relating to Forfarshire, a translation of a Charter of King John of England to the clergy and people of Arbroath, 1206, and a copy of a reversion of...
Dates: 1825.

Apparently unpublished work entitled "Mélographie, ou l'art d'écrire la musique comme le discours, par Joseph Delurtier".

 File
Identifier: MS.5289
Scope and Contents

The work describes a method of notation by stenographic symbols written on one line, giving many examples of its use.

Dates: ?18th century.

Arabic astrological text, ? 19th century.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.8889
Scope and Contents

With Burmese prayer woven on a tape, roll containing a poem, an inscription, and a painting by Ch`êng Chih-You, with accompanying ink blocks, all undated.

Dates: ? 19th century and undated.

Archives of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, consisting of incoming correspondence, lectures and papers read to the Society; including the original manuscript, 1871, of the essay of Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Intermittent Lights'.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4534/1-183
Scope and Contents

The papers comprise two distinct yet related groups, giving in all quite a comprehensive account of the Society's history, and spanning more than a century of rapid scientific and technological achievement.

Dates: 1819-1940, 1946, undated.

Armorial of James Workman.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.5
Scope and Contents The volume contains paintings of the arms of European rulers (folio 1), Scottish queens from St Margaret to Mary, Queen of Scots (folio 19), and Scottish nobility and gentry (folio 43). The full coats of arms are given, except for the gentry, where only their shields are shown.Former owner Sir James Balfour of Denmilne has added numerous criticisms of Workman`s inaccurate heraldry. He also identified the arms of the gentry (folio 171). These corrections were made on the...
Dates: 1st half of 17th century.

Armorial traditionally associated with Sir Robert Forman, Lord Lyon from 1555 to 1567

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Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.2
Scope and Contents The manuscript is described in ‘Heraldry in relation to Scottish history and art’ (Edinburgh, 1900), pages 193-195, which suggests that it is the source of Adv.MS.34.4.16(ii). It was displayed in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 691), and is closely related to both Adv.MS.31.4.3 and British Museum Harleian MS.115.The contents are as follows:(i) The royal arms (folio 2 verso).(ii) An explanation why the...
Dates: Circa 1562.

Arms of British and foreign noblemen, drawn in trick.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.10
Scope and Contents The manuscript, which is probably English in origin, seems to have been compiled between 1571 and 1581, since it includes the arms of Lord Burleigh (created 1571) (folio 37) and Lord Monteagle (died 1581) (folio 26 verso). There are additional notes, mostly dated 1606.The contents include the arms of English, Irish, German, Spanish, French, Scottish and Italian families, and also those of a number of European kingdoms and principalities. Not all the drawings have been completed....
Dates: 1571-1581.

Ars dictaminis of Giovanni di Buonandrea, with gloss, written in Italy.

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Identifier: MS.9744
Scope and Contents

Begins 'Bononie natus nataii dum sttidet urbe'; gloss begins 'Quid est Rethorica nisi ratio benedicendi'. The manuscript is incomplete, breaking off in the section on 'Petitio'.

A cutting from the sale catalogue of Maggs Bros, February 1960[?], number 67, is inserted describing the text as the work of Johannes de Bologna. Written in brown ink by one scribe, the text in littera semi-gothica textualis and the gloss in cursiva libraria. Spaces have been left for initials.

Dates: 1st half of 15th century.

Asloan Manuscript: a miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly Scottish, written almost entirely by John Asloan early in the reign of James V (1513-1542).

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Identifier: MS.16500
Scope and Contents On folio ii is a contents list by Lord Auchinleck, which gives the present state of the manuscript; on folios iii-iv are John Asloan's own list, with the items numbered, from which it appears that large parts of the original have been lost.The present contents are:John of Ireland, on penance and confession (folio 1, numbers i-xii);'The buke of ye chess', a metrical translation of the treatise of Jacobus de Cassolis (folio 41, number xii [repeated]);...
Dates: Early 16th century.

'Auchinleck manuscript', one of the earliest and largest compilations of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.1
Scope and Contents The following description was based primarily upon the conclusions of Pearsall and Cunningham (1977) and Burnley and Wiggins (2003). The numbering system of the items follows that of Pearsall and Cunningham.The Auchinleck manuscript was probably written in London at some point between 1331 and 1340. These dates can be assigned on the basis of palaeographical evidence and internal references. One of these references is the ending of the 'The Anonymous Short English Metrical...
Dates: 1331 - 1340.

Author’s own copy of ‘The Gareloch as military port no. 1’ by Arnold Fleming (Helensburgh, [1949]); with corrections and additions throughout in manuscript, and numerous inserts.

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Identifier: MS.16483
Scope and Contents

Pasted in at beginning and end are newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and manuscripts, consisting of reviews of the book and of articles and notes on its subject, on Clyde steamers, and on Madeleine Smith.

Dates: [1949], [1949, or after.]

Autograph collection, chiefly of the late nineteenth century.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10290-10291
Scope and Contents

The correspondents include politicians, artists and figures from the medical and theatrical professions. It probably belonged to Jean Lang, née Blaikie, to whom many of the letters are addressed, but a substantial amount of the correspondence is to William Miller, Member of the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and the physician, Sir Thomas Lauder-Brunton.

Dates: 1795-1925.

Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert, mostly from the publisher John Murray.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13507
Scope and Contents Autograph collection compiled by Katherine Probert in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The bulk of the collection comes from the publisher John Murray and relates to its authors.The contents are as follows:Letter of Lord Brougham to John Murray II, regarding Madame de Staël, circa 1817.Manuscript fragment of Sir Walter Scott's article 'Letters from the Hon. Horace Walpole', 1818.Letter of Lord Byron to John Murray II, Pisa, 3 July 1822....
Dates: Majority of material found within Circa 1817-1934, 1992, undated.

Autograph collection of W K Dickson, Keeper of the Advocates' Library and Librarian of the National Library of Scotland, containing letters of political, literary, and other figures.

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Identifier: MS.9657
Scope and Contents

A number of the letters are addressed to Alexander Adam, rector of Edinburgh High School, and others to David Dickson, master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. There is a small group of naval autographs, 1746-1813 (folio 267) and a manuscript periodical, 'The Glencorse Advertiser', for July 1840 (folio 281).

Dates: 1771-1937.

Autograph draft short score of the apparently unpublished piano concerto of Edward Harper.

 File
Identifier: MS.22151
Scope and Contents

A leaf is torn out after folio 16.

What appears to be an extract from ‘Variazioni’ by Luciano Berio is written at folio 20.

Dates: 1969.

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Balfour, James, Sir, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird (antiquary) 22
Gray, Alasdair (author) 16
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978 (poet, writer, and cultural activist, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid) 16
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Jamieson, Morley, Edinburgh, bookseller, fl 1940-1988 9
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret (née Haldane), Baroness Mitchison (author) 9
Glen, Duncan Munro, editor and author, 1933-2008 8
Sibbald, Robert, Sir, Knight (physician and Geographer Royal) 8
Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 7
Morrison, David Ralston, Editor of 'Scotia Review', 1941-2012 7
Brown, Hamish Macmillan (author and mountaineer) 6
Bruce, George Robert, poet and broadcaster, 1909-2002 6
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 6
Annand, James King, poet, 1908-1993 5
Bold, Alan Norman (poet, writer, critic and artist) 5
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 5
Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Anthony Compton, Knight, author, formerly Compton, 1883-1972 5
Spark, Muriel Sarah, Dame (née Camberg, author) 5
Stevenson, Ronald J, composer and pianist, 1928-2015 5
White, Kenneth, poet and writer, b 1936 5
Augustine of Hippo, Saint 4
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) 4
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd (Scottish poet, novelist and essayist) 4
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell, author, 1899-1974 4
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, poet and radio announcer, pseudonym Adam Drinan, 1903–1984 4
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 4
Nye, Robert, author and poet, b 1939 4
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist, 1850–1894 4
Stuart, Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, Prince, 1720-1788 4
Caird, James Bowman, HM Inspector of Schools, 1919-1989 3
Cameron, Sir David Young, Knight, painter and etcher, 1865-1945 3
Cronin, Archibald Joseph, novelist, 1896-1981 3
Gratian (Canonist) 3
Hay, Richard Augustine (canon and antiquary) 3
Henderson, Hamish, poet and folklorist, 1919-2002 3
Home, Hon William Douglas, playwright, 1912-1992 3
Leonard, Thomas, poet, b 1944 3
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, Duc de La Vallière 3
Mac Mhurchaidh, Uilleam , ca. 1700-1778 (schoolmaster, poet and scribe) 3
MacDonald, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, poet, ca. 1698-ca. 1770 3
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 3
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 3
Maxwell, family, of Monreith 3
Muir, Edwin, poet, 1887-1959 3
Ramsay, Allan, poet, 1684-1758 3
Scott, Thomas McLaughlin, poet and editor, 1918-1995 3
Sinclair, Henry (Bishop of Ross) 3
Smith, Annie Shepherd Burnett, novelist, pseudonym "David Lyall", née Swan, 1859-1943 3
Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author) 3
Soutar, William (poet) 3
St Clair, William, 14th Baron of Rosslyn (Lord Chief Justice of Scotland) 3
Sutherland, Robert Garioch, poet, pseudonym Robert Garioch, 1909-1981 3
Thorkelin, Grímur Jónsson (Scholar) 3
Young, Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun, poet, 1913-1973 3
Akros, literary magazine 2
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 2
Bennett, Enoch Arnold, writer, 1867-1931 2
Boccaccio, Giovanni (Writer and Poet) 2
Boog, Robert (Minister of Paisley Abbey) 2
Bottomley, Gordon, author, 1874-1948 2
Bowring, Sir John, Knight, politician, diplomatist and author, 1792-1872: recipient 2
Brown, Ivor John Carnegie, theatre critic and writer, 1891-1974 2
Burnett (of Leys) 2
Caird, Janet Hinshaw, novelist, née Kirkwood, 1913-1992 2
Campbell, Archibald, jurist, piper, 1877-1963 2
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 2
Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn, Senator of the College of Justice, 1779-1854 2
Coles, Cecil Frederick, composer, 1888-1918 2
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 2
Farquhar, George Taylor Shillito, Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, 1857-1927 2
Fowler, Alastair David Shaw, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1930 2
Fraser, George Sutherland, poet and critic, 1915-1980 2
Freebairn, Robert (bookseller and printer) 2
Gardner, Archibald Ward, physician, 1923-1994 2
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 2
Graham, William Sydney, poet, 1918-1986 2
Grant, John, Pipe Major, d 1961 2
Gregory I, Pope 2
Gunn, Neil Miller (author) 2
Harper, Edward, composer, 1941-2009 2
Hay, William (Bishop of Moray) 2
Henderson and Bisset, Edinburgh, bookbinders 2
Herdman, John MacMillan, writer, b 1941 2
Hume, David, philosopher, 1711-1776 2
Inglis, Esther, calligrapher, married name Kello, ? 1570-1624 2
Jamieson, Robert Alan, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, b 1958 2
Johnstone, William, painter and art educationist, 1897-1981 2
Justinian I, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 2
Keating, Geoffrey (Seathrún Céitinn), ca. 1580-ca. 1644 2
Lochhead, Liz, poet and playwright, b 1947 2
Mac Pháill, Eoghan, Dunstaffnage, fl. 1603-1638 2
MacDonald, Donald, piper and bagpipe maker, ? 1766-1840 2
MacDonald, George, poet and novelist, 1824-1905 2
MacGill-Eain, Somhairle (poet) 2
MacMhuirich, Niall, ca. 1637-1726 2
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